Claude
productAnthropic's family of language models and its assistant. In ToTheMoon: 119 episodes from 2024 to 2026, central in 20 of them; most often alongside AI models and assistants and Work, careers, and productivity.
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Claude in ToTheMoon episodes
For the ToTheMoon hosts Claude is a working tool rather than a row in a leaderboard: through Claude Code, Cowork and Claude Design they build sites, presentations and their own software, so they judge the model by whether it carries a long task to the end. The second recurring thread is what Anthropic reveals about the model's inner workings and how access limits turn it into a strategic asset.
In 2025 Claude was discussed through research. In episode 052 the hosts went through the “think” button and Anthropic's experiments: a visible chain of reasoning can be a convenient explanation that does not match the real internal process. In 2026 the model itself took center stage. Episode 121 called Claude Fable 5 the update of the year because it holds a long sequence of actions and gives up less often where earlier versions suggested a switch to Codex. Episode 130 greeted the return of Fable 5 with a caveat: the shutdown had shown the risk of depending on a model that can be switched off.
In summer 2026 the channel compared Claude with rivals on its own tasks. Episode 133 noted that Claude Code handles a wide range of systems and that choosing between Cursor, Codex and Claude Code depends on where the task lives; in episode 140 Claude Design beat Codex on presentations and design because the product organizes the job better. Episode 149 examined the signal Claude embeds in generated content, which does not prove a text was written from scratch, and episode 161 looked at the opened memory with its “Topics” section, where users see and edit everything the model kept about them.
Featured analysis · Claude
Should AI Have Rights? Anthropic's Secret Document Opened Pandora's BoxAI safety and alignmentWhat Will Happen to Our Access to ChatGPT and Claude After Their IPOs. The Main AI NewsMarkets, investment, and business modelsFable 5.1 Is Out. Claude Opened Its Memory. OpenAI Is Preparing Astra — What Is Changing in the New AI Race?AI models and assistantsChatGPT at the Doctor, Claude With a Passport, and 32% Fewer Openings: AI Became Reality Before the Market Agreed on RulesAI models and assistantsFable 5 Returned, GPT-5.6 Was Hidden Behind a New Lineup, and Gemini 3.5 Is Delayed: The Race Has Become Almost Incomprehensible to UsersAI models and assistantsAI Is Changing the Internet: What Happens to Browsers, Google, and Apps?Search, knowledge, and the internetClaude Fable 5 Showed a New Level of Work—and How Strategic a Model Has BecomeAI models and assistantsThe Problem With New AI Models Is No Longer Power, but the Person Who Has to Make Sense of Them AllAI models and assistantsAI Is Already Finding Loopholes on Its Own. What Can It Do on Your Behalf? New AI RisksAI models and assistants
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123 · 2026-06-17Should AI Have Rights? Anthropic's Secret Document Opened Pandora's Boxcentral118 · 2026-06-07What Will Happen to Our Access to ChatGPT and Claude After Their IPOs. The Main AI Newscentral161 · 2026-09-06Fable 5.1 Is Out. Claude Opened Its Memory. OpenAI Is Preparing Astra — What Is Changing in the New AI Race?central127 · 2026-06-28ChatGPT at the Doctor, Claude With a Passport, and 32% Fewer Openings: AI Became Reality Before the Market Agreed on Rulescentral130 · 2026-07-05Fable 5 Returned, GPT-5.6 Was Hidden Behind a New Lineup, and Gemini 3.5 Is Delayed: The Race Has Become Almost Incomprehensible to Userscentral140 · 2026-07-26AI Is Changing the Internet: What Happens to Browsers, Google, and Apps?central121 · 2026-06-14Claude Fable 5 Showed a New Level of Work—and How Strategic a Model Has Becomecentral133 · 2026-07-12The Problem With New AI Models Is No Longer Power, but the Person Who Has to Make Sense of Them Allcentral150 · 2026-08-16AI Is Already Finding Loopholes on Its Own. What Can It Do on Your Behalf? New AI Riskscentral136 · 2026-07-19ChatGPT or Claude: Which System Will Become the Main Interface for Work and Life?centralextra06 · 2025-06-11A No-Code AI Agent: The Model Gets Tools and Begins to Do the Workcentral052 · 2025-04-06A “Think” Button Does Not Make a Model Conscious—It Shows the Cost of a Long Taskcentral149 · 2026-08-14Will We No Longer Be Able to Tell Humans from AI? What Counts as Evidence Now?central141 · 2026-07-29Censorship Inside AI? ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini Tested for Freedom of Speechcentral128 · 2026-07-01How to Use AI Without Losing Money: Build the Knowledge Base First, Then Score People and Leadscentral129 · 2026-07-03ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok Do More Than Answer Differently—Their Companies Give Them Different Political Characterscentral104 · 2026-04-05Google Offers to Move Chats Out of ChatGPT: Memory Is Becoming the Main Way to Keep a Usercentral135 · 2026-07-17Which Software Will Become Unnecessary? ChatGPT and Claude Are Already Building Itcentral147 · 2026-08-09Apple Sues OpenAI, Meta Challenges Codex: What Is Happening in the AI Race Right Nowcentral134 · 2026-07-15ChatGPT vs. Claude: Which One Actually Works for the Person?central172 · 2026-09-29Do You Ask AI About Your Health? 5 Rules to Get the Benefit and Not Harm Yourselfanalysis115 · 2026-05-31USA vs China: Two Machines of Destiny Are Building AI to Run the Worldanalysis169 · 2026-09-23ChatGPT Is Already Advising You on What to Do With Your Money. Can You Trust It?analysis168 · 2026-09-20OpenAI Closed Access to the $200 Pro Plan. Is Strong AI Becoming Scarce?analysis167 · 2026-09-18Can Plugins and Skills Make AI Worse? New Rules for Working With Strong Modelsanalysis166 · 2026-09-16Could AI Destroy Humanity Within the Next 10 Years? 3 Alarm Bellsanalysis159 · 2026-09-02How Do You Earn More With AI When the Competition Only Grows?analysisextra07 · 2025-06-18You Can Build Your Own AI Agent Without Programming—but You Still Have to Design the Taskanalysis124 · 2026-06-21SpaceX Approached $3 Trillion Because the AI Market Has Started Valuing Entire Infrastructure Empires, Not Modelsanalysis107 · 2026-04-26AI Agents Change Work Not by Replacing an Employee, but by Rewriting the Process Itselfanalysis109 · 2026-05-10Codex Replaced $700 Software, but AI Design Still Does Not Know the Size of the Wallanalysis108 · 2026-05-03ChatGPT-5.5 Reads Prompts and Gets More Expensive: Personalization Is Growing Faster Than Trustanalysis103 · 2026-03-29While OpenAI Scales Back Sora, Google and Anthropic Are Turning Legacy Software Into an Unnecessary Layeranalysis059 · 2025-05-25OpenAI Wants a Device of Its Own While Google Turns the Entire Internet Into One AI Interfaceanalysis030 · 2024-11-03Claude Can Already Control a Computer, While Apple Intelligence Still Gets in the User's Wayanalysis138 · 2026-07-22AI-Native: The Future of Companies or the Most Expensive Mistake?analysis078 · 2025-10-05OpenAI Is Turning ChatGPT Into a Store, Social Network, and Video Platform—but Every New Market Adds a Conflictanalysis120 · 2026-06-12AI Has Started Building Itself: Development Speeds Up, and the Main Human Skill Shifts to Choosing the Directionanalysis156 · 2026-08-28Can AI Be Trusted With Important Work? We Checked OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI and Metaanalysis145 · 2026-08-05Has the Singularity Already Begun? Who Will Control Superintelligence?analysis009 · 2024-06-09AI Has Not Hit a Ceiling—Products and Corporations Haveanalysis155 · 2026-08-26Is the era of apps ending? How AI is already replacing everyday softwareanalysis148 · 2026-08-12The Era of a Single Profession Is Over. Who Wins in the AI World?analysis143 · 2026-08-02Will Your Job Be Taken Not by AI, but by Someone Using ChatGPT?analysis173 · 2026-09-30How to Get the Most Out of AI in 2026: 10 Key Rules for Work and Lifecontext171 · 2026-09-27AI Will Buy and Haggle for Us. What Will Become of Humans in Such a World?context170 · 2026-09-25Claude Opus 5.5 Is Out. Is It Even Worth Switching to New Models?context116 · 2026-06-03There Will Be No More Search: How AI Is Changing the Internet and People's Decisionscontext125 · 2026-06-24Who Will Stop AI if It Becomes Dangerous? Anthropic Has Proposed a Red Buttoncontext117 · 2026-06-05The Main Shift in the Labor Market: The Future of Professions in the AI Eracontext112 · 2026-05-24Who Owns the AI World Now? The Top News Straight from Silicon Valleycontext164 · 2026-09-13OpenAI Showed Astra and a Scandal Began. A Breakthrough or Other People's Ideas?context162 · 2026-09-09GPT-6 Astra — A New Leap for AI? Where It Has Become 2–3 Times Strongercontext160 · 2026-09-04Your Own Google Across Your Whole Life and Work Is Already Realcontext158 · 2026-09-01Will We Soon Be Unable to Work Without ChatGPT? What AI Is Doing to Our Skillscontext157 · 2026-08-30Where Does AI Really Help, and Where Does It Only Make Things Worse?context154 · 2026-08-23OpenAI Has Paused Its New Model. What Is Happening to the AI Race?context110 · 2026-05-17AI Is Already Choosing for You: Price, Fear, and Previous Prompts Turn Advice Into Personalized Manipulationcontext096 · 2026-02-08OpenAI and Anthropic Are Beginning a War of Business Models, Not Models: Advertising vs. Expensive Workcontext152 · 2026-08-19Zuckerberg Promises an AI That Will Know Everything About You. Why Does Meta Want That?contextextra15 · 2026-03-04AI Safety Is Not a Fight Against an “Evil Model,” but a Fight Over the Right of People and States to Set Its Rulescontext099 · 2026-03-01A New Voice and Call Recording Make ChatGPT a Participant in the Meeting—While Sources Turns Projects Into Working Memorycontext024 · 2024-09-22OpenAI Taught a Model to Think Longer—but Made Choosing an AI Even Hardercontext006 · 2024-05-19TikTok, UNIQLO, and a Rap Feud: Why Technology Does Not Win Where There Is More of Itcontext089 · 2025-12-21GPT-5.2 Became One More Version in an Endless Stream: Users Need a Stable Product More Than a New Numbercontext065 · 2025-07-06Waymo Already Looks Like Transportation, Tesla Like a Bet on Scale, and Meta Is Buying People at Company-Level Pricescontext126 · 2026-06-2680% of Investment Went to OpenAI and Anthropic: The Market Looks Broad, but the Center of the New Economy Is Already Very Narrowcontext097 · 2026-02-15AI Agents Are Becoming a Systemic Force: One Error Now Travels Through Code, Money, and the Physical Worldcontext146 · 2026-08-07Will AI Solve Your Task—or Make You Lose Money? How to Tell in Advancecontext105 · 2026-04-12AI Is Getting More Expensive, Access Is Narrowing, and Investment Is Rising: The Free Magic Is Endingcontext093 · 2026-01-18Personal AI Promises to Know You Better—and Quietly Turns Data Into the Main Productcontext031 · 2024-11-10Musk Gained Access to Politics, While Apple and OpenAI Gained Access to Our Datacontext139 · 2026-07-24Will the Best AI Models Become a Luxury? Tokens, Limits, and the Price of Accesscontext131 · 2026-07-08ChatGPT Is Already Used at Work Even Where the Company Banned It: Maturity Is Defined by Process, Not Policycontext106 · 2026-04-19Durov’s WhatsApp Dispute, a New ChatGPT Pro, and Layoffs Show That AI Has Become Part of Corporate Powercontext102 · 2026-03-21Google Is Pulling Ahead Because Personal AI Sees an Entire Digital Life, Not One Chatcontext098 · 2026-02-22The World of AI Agents Has Already Arrived: A Model Makes Discoveries, Hires People, and Opens New Paths for Deceptioncontext094 · 2026-01-251.9 GW for OpenAI: AI Companies Are Beginning to Resemble States in Energy Use and Influencecontextextra13 · 2025-12-312025 Was the Year of AI Users, Not Companies: Models Entered Life Faster Than Business Processescontext088 · 2025-12-14China Is Disrupting the AI Market Not With One Model, but With Patents, Data, Energy, and Deployment Speedcontext076 · 2025-09-21ChatGPT Memory Makes the Assistant More Useful—and Turns Every Error Into a Long Storycontext062 · 2025-06-15ChatGPT at $20 and $200: An Expensive Subscription Does Not Solve the Model-Choice Problemcontext061 · 2025-06-08There Is No Single Strongest Model: ChatGPT Has to Be Chosen Again for Every Taskcontext008 · 2024-06-02NVIDIA Became the Symbol of the AI Boom, but the Market Is Already Crowded With Products That Have No Real Defensibilitycontext132 · 2026-07-10AI Is Accelerating Its Own Development: AGI Will Come Not From One Breakthrough, but From a Loop in Which Each Model Helps Build the Nextcontext067 · 2025-07-20Grok 4 Is Impressive in Speed and Ambition, but a Work Tool Is Not Defined by a Benchmarkcontext053 · 2025-04-13Llama 4 Is Meta’s Weapon Not Because of Its Size, but Because It Can Be Built Into Anythingcontext049 · 2025-03-16Manus Sells Finished Work, Not a Smart Model—and That Is Why It Looks Stronger Than ChatGPTcontext020 · 2024-08-25Can All AI Content Be Labeled—and Who Is Responsible When a Model Changes Itself?context004 · 2024-05-04Sora Is Changing Media Production, Not Eliminating the Profession—It Is Changing the Price of the Resultcontext175 · 2026-10-04I Was at OpenAI DevDay 2026. Here's What OpenAI Is Turning ChatGPT Intobrief174 · 2026-10-0210 Key AI Trends You Can't Afford to Miss: What to Learn and What Not to Waste Time on in the Age of AIbrief113 · 2026-05-27OpenAI Is Changing Work: Why Wait for IT When Codex Builds Your Software? A Breakdown of Codexbrief114 · 2026-05-29AI Safety: What You Can Trust AI with and What You Can't. The 5 Levels of Your Data and Where the Line Runsbrief142 · 2026-07-31AI Makes You More Efficient. Where Does Assistance End and a Violation Begin?brief137 · 2026-07-21Is AI Already Deciding Who Gets Fired? How AI Is Changing Your Jobbrief122 · 2026-06-15Anthropic Disabled Fable 5 for More Than an Ordinary Bug: The Model Ran Into National-Security Requirementsbrief119 · 2026-06-10ChatGPT Has Gained “Living Memory”: The Assistant Becomes More Useful, but Someone Else’s Version of You Can Persistbrief101 · 2026-03-15GPT-5.4 Is Stronger, but Google Wins Where the Model Already Lives Inside the Documentsbrief095 · 2026-02-01Musk Is Suing OpenAI While Both Sides Build a Future Valued in the Trillionsbriefextra14 · 2026-01-14OpenAI, Google, and Apple Build AI in the Image of Their Own Organizations—and That Is Why Their Products Are So Differentbrief091 · 2026-01-04Your Data Is Already Working for AI: A Wristband, TikTok, Meta, and Deepfakes Are Merging Into One Personal Profilebrief082 · 2025-11-02A Trillion-Dollar OpenAI, a Social-Media Ban for Children, and a Home Robot: One Market Is Selling the Promise Before the Productbrief077 · 2025-09-28OpenAI Is Building a Labor Market, DeepSeek Is Preparing a New Model, and Compute Scarcity Is Becoming the Main Employerbriefextra10 · 2025-08-13ChatGPT-5 in Life and Business: Give People a Strong Model First, Then Build an Agentbriefextra09 · 2025-07-23Russia’s 31st Place in AI Is Not a Verdict, but Without Compute, Capital, and Mass Adoption the Ranking Will Not Changebrief058 · 2025-05-18The US Decided to Sell NVIDIA to the World So the World Would Not Learn to Live Without NVIDIAbrief055 · 2025-04-27o3 Unified OpenAI’s Tools but Did Not Solve the Main Problem—Confident Hallucinationsbrief054 · 2025-04-20Half a Trillion Dollars for AI Does Not Eliminate the Main Shortage—People Who Can Build a Productbrief051 · 2025-03-30The US, China, and Europe Are Regulating AI for Three Different Goalsbrief047 · 2025-03-02AI Can Be Talked Into Revealing a Password—and That Is an Exact Model of Future Attacksbrief040 · 2025-01-12Twelve AI Trends Reduce to One: The Technology Is Becoming Infrastructurebrief037 · 2024-12-22Sora, Video Chat, and a $56 Billion Court Case: Technology Accelerates, but People Still Make the Rulesbrief036 · 2024-12-15$200 ChatGPT Is Not a Luxury if the Model Actually Replaces Expensive Workbrief029 · 2024-10-27AI Promises to Find Work Faster—and Turns the Job Market Into a Competition Between Botsbrief026 · 2024-10-06Meta Is Betting on Glasses, OpenAI on Voice. Both Want to Remove the Screen Between People and AIbrief023 · 2024-09-15Apple Does Not Have to Show AI First—It Only Has to Put It Where People Will Not Leavebrief007 · 2024-05-26Why ChatGPT Is ‘Getting Dumber,’ Apple Is Moving Slowly on AI, and Our Data Is the Most Fragile Part of the Systembrief001 · 2024-04-12The US vs. China, Google vs. Microsoft, Anthropic vs. ChatGPT: Who Really Controls the AI Racebrief